tl;dr -From my experience talking and traveling with others, there isn't a hard-and-fast set of rules to being vegan. I guess you could call it a spectrum.
For instance, some vegans will swear that any leather product whatsoever is bad; others would argue that leather products made decades ago are fine because they've already been made and you're simply doing the reuse/recycle thing and not letting it go to waste.
Another example is honey: there are ethical ways to extract honey from hives that helps the hive in some ways, and not-so-good ways that end up killing large swathes of bees. As a result, some vegans swear any honey is bad, but others will disagree and be OK with it under strict circumstances.
From my perspective, it's all about who you support with your wallet, which extends now beyond just animals but to nature as a whole, in terms of what the companies we buy from do with their profits. Even reaching to topics like gen AI and how the capitalists are extracting resources for their models. There are ways to train models that don't steal other peoples' work, etc. I'm against the big players shoving down our throats, but I'm not opposed to training a model on public domain works, or even a pool of my own work, and then utilizing local generation as a form of automation based on how I like to do things.
I also take a pretty staunch health stance against eating animal proteins just because of factory farming, but if I were to be a refugee living in the woods I wouldn't be against hunting and killing a small and rapidly reproducing animal like a rabbit to survive (so long as I'm doing everything from the kill to field dressing, etc.). I will avoid it as long as I have other methods to get the nutrition my body needs, though.
Still, their copy at that link uses the wording, "partnered with Microsoft", and that doesn't sit well with me at all when they go on to mention, "relevant advertising." My personal trust level in them has vanished entirely.
I just want a search engine to search, fuck off with ads of any kind, relevant or not. There are plenty of other options that do exactly this, so why settle for a slightly more diluted poison when I could just drink water.
To add to the point about AI in search engines, arguably it would be better to just stop using those search engines and inflating their demand at all. This not only removes the need for yet-another-add-on, but it reduces the uniqueness of your browser fingerprint. Remember, the more add-ons and changes you make to your browser, the more unique you are to the world when browsing.
Awful title from Hackaday, makes it sound like the Raspberry Pi itself is growing in size. It's actually just an oversized accessory you can attach a Pi 5 to. The article body itself doesn't do a whole lot to make that clear, either, until you click through the links and see better pictures of the product.
I can't even remember the last thing I burned, had to have been over 10 years ago and it was likely install media for some Linux distro. I haven't had a functional audio CD player in a very long time.
I did, however, rip a couple audio discs a few months ago. I was surprised that my USB disc drive still functioned.
edit: just read the other comments and I find it hilarious how almost everyone burned some distro install media
Just please put the random string of Elvis impersonators trolling the streets back in there